Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.

Highest among those who have exhibited human nature by means of dialogue stands Shakespeare. His variety is like the variety of nature,--endless diversity, scarcely…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“I'm afraid I always find Shakespeare terribly dreary. All those long scenes where everybody is drunk and it's supposed to be funny.”

— Agatha Christie

I've definitely learned that if you want to have power as a woman in Shakespeare's time, and it's still relevant today, that you have…

— Samuel Barnett

This was Shakespeare's form ; Who walk'd in every path of human life, Felt every passion ; and to all mankind Doth now, will…

— Mark Akenside

Juilliard is wonderful in that they don't pick just one way of working. They give you a palette. There is method acting. There is…

— Christian Camargo

Shakespeare put no children in his plays for a reason," Sir Godfrey muttered, glaring at Alf and Binnie. "You're forgetting the Little Prince," Polly…

— Connie Willis

“Nernst was a great admirer of Shakespeare, and it is said that in a conference concerned with naming units after appropriate persons, he proposed…

— J.R. Partington

“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting…

— Samuel Johnson

“Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”

— Ken Robinson

The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a…

— Simon Schama

“It was wonderful flirting with him, all the razor-edged literary banter, like Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. A battle of wit,…

— Elizabeth Wein

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

— Michael Moriarty

Its extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.

— Kevin Spacey

“This was going to be worse than the time I table danced in the diner in high school!”

— Kathy Bryson

It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language.

— Samuel Barnett